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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine has concluded a four-day trip India, during which he travelled with U.S. Sen. Angus King. He's moving on to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Kaine chairs the Senate's Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs. Due to Shad Plank's noticeable lack of being India, we're just going to drop a couple paragraphs of Kaine's press release here: In New Delhi, the senators met with senior Indian defense and foreign affairs officials, including National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Members of Parliament and leading strategic commentators. They discussed the success of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to...

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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine has concluded a four-day trip India, during which he travelled with U.S. Sen. Angus King. He's moving on to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Kaine chairs the Senate's Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian...

East Beach is all about a laid-back, Jimmy Buffet-type lifestyle along the Chesapeake Bay. Which is why Homearama keeps coming back there. People come by the thousands to see the coastal cottages that make up the Norfolk neighborhood, which was...

The sitar -- an eastern Indian stringed instrument made famous in the western world by Ravi Shankar and Beatle George Harrison -- doesn't get seen, much less heard, often on the Peninsula. Up to now, anyway.A new group called the Music of India Ensemble...

It was his 52nd birthday in the fall of 2001 and Portsmouth vascular surgeon Dilip Sarkar didn't feel well. He felt inexplicably tired and slightly nauseous. He called a cardiologist friend who told him to meet him at the emergency room. The next day he...

The alarm sounded with two sneezy children in
California in April. Just five months later, the never-before-seen
swine flu has become the world's dominant strain of influenza, and
it's putting a shockingly younger face on flu.
So get ready. With...

ISLAMABAD Militant Pakistani Sunni groups that trained alongside al-Qaida, fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan and launched terrorist attacks in India have pledged their support to Saudi Arabia, a key source of their funding, amid growing pressure on...

Hundreds of Kashmiris in both India and Pakistan moved to higher ground Monday as rain-swollen rivers swamped parts of the disputed Himalayan region placed under an emergency flood alert just six months after some 600 people died in flooding that left the...

An Alabama police officer already facing criminal charges for an incident in which he slammed a 57-year-old Indian man to the ground has been indicted on federal civil rights charge, prosecutors announced Friday.
A grand jury indicted Eric Sloan...

Pakistan needs short-range "tactical" nuclear weapons to deter arch-rival India, a top adviser to its government said Monday, dismissing concerns it could increase the risk of a nuclear war. Khalid Kidwai also rejected concerns over the security...

Cheating in school tests is an old Indian problem.
But the malpractice literally scaled new heights this week in the eastern state of Bihar when relatives of 10th-grade students climbed the wall of a school building and perched precariously from...

About 600 high school students in eastern India have been expelled for cheating on pressure-packed 10th grade examinations this week, education authorities said Friday. The incident has received widespread attention after Indian television footage...

Three coaches of a passenger train derailed in northern India on Friday, killing 31 people, and rescuers were using gas cutters to rip apart the mangled wreckage to search for trapped people. At least 50 were injured. Rescue workers pulled 31 bodies...

Three coaches of a passenger train derailed in northern India on Friday, killing 26 people, and rescuers were using gas cutters to rip apart the mangled wreckage to find trapped people. At least 30 people were injured.
Rescue workers had pulled out 26...

SINGAPORE Singapore said Monday it wants India to play a bigger role in the South China Sea as China hastens land reclamation in the disputed waters that carry some of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Singapore has been a strong supporter of...

A defense lawyer says Pakistan has again detained the main suspect in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks for one month after a court ordered his release. The lawyer Rizwan Abbasi says the detention order for Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi was issued Saturday. The...

The legacy of Mohandas K. Gandhi is being celebrated with a prominent new statue of the Indian independence leader in Parliament Square in central London. Prime Minister David Cameron and Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday unveiled the...

If time heals all, then the clock began to tick effectively and appropriately Friday night for Serena Williams and Indian Wells.
If you want to get a bit overly dramatic, you can roll out the cliches. Williams has officially moved on. She has put this...

A Pakistani court on Friday ordered the release of the main suspect in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks by cancelling a government order under which he was detained for the past three months, a defense lawyer and prosecution said. But Zaki-ur-Rahman...